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Peter Ward

Lamarck's Revenge

How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present

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Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits. In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances in the study of DNA and RNA have resurrected epigenetics, which can create radical physical and p… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63286-615-8
  • EAN: 9781632866158
  • Produktnummer: 24939666
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.5 cm 554 g
  • Gewicht: 554

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